CROCKETT — A late-afternoon wind is being blamed for a small flare-up within a 20-acre area that was burned by a grass fire Tuesday near Crockett.

Firefighters from the Crockett-Carquinez Fire District responded to the small fire shortly after 6:30 p.m. Wednesday and had the 100 x 100-foot fire under control in about 20 minutes, said Paul Contestable, assistant fire chief with Crockett-Carquinez Fire.

Crews from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection had been on duty overnight and throughout Wednesday to extinguish hot spots. Contestable said the crew had just been sent home when the wind picked up and a hot spot flared up.

The fire went to a second alarm and crews from the Rodeo-Hercules Fire District, East Bay Regional Park District Fire Department and Cal Fire were already en route before the second alarm was canceled.

On Tuesday, 100 firefighters were called in to fight the wind-blown brush fire that scorched the same area and threatened structures in Crockett.

It took crews from eight different fire agencies a little more than two hours to contain the fire, but not before 1,500 customers lost power.

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